The Dispensatory of the United States of America (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Dispensatory of the United States of AmericaWhen the fourteenth edition of the Dispensatory was published, Dr. Geo. B. Wood was nearly eighty years of age, and, although he sympathised with the move ment which has resulted in putting therapeutics upon the firm foundation of physio logicd rationalism, he could not fully apprehend the changes which had occurred in therapeutical methods during the previous decade. Consequently, in most of the more important articles the sections treating of Medical Properties and Uses have had to be rewritten. The revision of these sections, as well as of the Botany and Vegetable Materia Medics, has fallen to the senior editor, Prof. H. C. Wood.